5 News Stories Right Out of the 'Grand Theft Auto' Games

By Hillery Alley Published: October 11th, 2013 While you have been consumed by the shutdown of the government, you probably missed the release of a boutique "televisual game" titled Grand Theft Auto V. And -- serendipitously enough -- there's recently been an outpouring of news stories that sound

26 Viral News Stories That Would Break the Internet

By CRACKED Readers Published: October 04th, 2013 When something goes viral these days, you can count on 24 hours of commentary, a meme or two, and then that's it. But what if a story was so shocking that the Internet literally packed it up and called it a day? We asked you to show us just that -- w

4 Awkward True Stories About Dealing With Death

By CRACKED Staff Published: October 02nd, 2013 

4 More Internet News Stories That Were Clearly B.S.

By David Christopher Bell Published: October 01st, 2013 Hey, did you hear? Science finally invented lightsabers! Or so we believed for about 15 seconds before we got to the second paragraph of that article with a photo of Darth Vader at the top and realized it was actually about photons or some shit. Yeah

22 Stories We Can't Believe BuzzFeed Hasn't Written Yet

By Cody Published: September 27th, 2013 Let me first be clear that BuzzFeed has done some very insightful, interesting interviews. And just look at their news section -- they do news. But then there's the other thing. The "19 Reasons Raisins Should Be Put in Jail" and "Is This a Disney Mov

Wendy Webb: The Best Ghost Stories I've Heard on my Book Tour

type="html" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/"> No, I believe in Ouija Board Glow-in-the-Dark">ghosts now because, at every reading I've done, no matter where in the country I am, people tell me about the otherworldly experiences they've had.

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6 Movies You Won't Believe Are Based on Insane True Stories

By Robin Warder Published: September 24th, 2013 When we see movies, we tend to take the phrase "based on a true story" with a healthy amount of skepticism, because a lot of them turn out to be complete bullshit. However, some movies are inspired by true events that are so unrealistic, the filmmake

5 True Stories Behind Iconic Pictures of Badass Women

By Kristi Harrison Published: September 24th, 2013 Someone once said "Well-behaved women seldom make history" immediately before mistakenly attributing the quote to Marilyn Monroe and tattooing it on a calf muscle. Even if you've never heard of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who came up with th

4 Recent News Stories That Could Be 'X-Files' Episodes

By David Christopher Bell Published: September 20th, 2013 Almost every other X-Files episode begins with some quiet hamlet getting plagued by a paranormal thingamabobber, at which point Scully, Mulder, and Scully's absolutely smashing 1990s fashion ensembles are sent to investigate. And if The X-Files were

4 More Recent News Stories That Were Total B.S.

By David Christopher Bell Published: September 16th, 2013 As we recently discussed, the media have a troubling habit of scooping up tin jars of magic powder from Internet snake oil salesmen and selling it to the rest of the world as irrefutable fact without bothering to do a quick check on Google search to